Predictions

This is a somewhat weird series as Renegades signed a swedish player recently and I still don’t understand why would they go for atter when there’s so many good free agents they could get, on top of that, atter is not a hard carry players, in fact he’s not even that good so I’m actually very curious why Renegades picked him up. Another tricky thing is the map pool as we have mirage as the first map, followed up by cache, so basically two maps that both teams like a lot.

Generally speaking, we haven’t seen too much of the new Renegades yet, they played a close match against FaZe on mirage and got stomped by Na’Vi on the exact same map, that’s about it, but based on the map vetos it seems like mirage is their favorites map. Cloud9 are also very good on mirage, definitely better than Renegades as they rarely lose on it, if they do it’s usually against very good European teams.

Cache should be better than mirage for Cloud9 as Renegades had some shaky matches on it, however it was back when they played with Rickeh and perhaps changed their roles and positions, so it might be different right now, Renegades already had some issues on cache before, they lost to teams like Echo Fox and Liquid who played with 120+ ping because they were in Europe at that time, Cloud9’s results are far more impressive, and I actually believe that they will take cache as well.

So, I guess that will be another double header where I’ll go with a double bet on the same team, therefore I’d suggest a small bet on Cloud9 on each map.

Simply put I don’t really see C9 losing either of these maps. Mirage is a map that RNG likes to play and they aren’t bad on it but they are not polished enough to take down a side such as C9, unless they have a terrible off day, and lose both pistols. Cache should favour C9 even more and I can see Mirage being some what close, and then C9 running away with the 2nd one. The roster change in RNG is a strange one and I cant see it really working long term. Overall two maps that C9 should win, LOW on C9 for both.